lammas
IPA: ɫˈæmʌz
Root Word: Lammas
noun
- (England) A former festival held on 1st August celebrating the harvest.
- (Scotland) 1st August, a quarter day.
- (paganism) A modern pagan festival celebrated in early August celebrating the start of the grain harvest.
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Examples of "lammas" in Sentences
- Ian Duhig, 'The Lammas Hireling'.
- Lammas is one of the Scottish quarter days.
- It is associated with the Lammas harvest festival.
- Lammas gives the impression of being a sleepy, rural place.
- Today, Lammas serves mainly as a dormitory for the city of Norwich.
- A rather grand white water mill also crosses between Buxton and Lammas.
- Administratively it falls within the civil parish of Buxton with Lammas.
- There was also an attempt at mass murder when a car bomb was left in in Castle Street during the annual Lammas Fair.